Andrea Lekić

Andrea Lekić
Personal information
Born (1987-09-06) 6 September 1987
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Height 1.78 metres (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 69 kilograms (152 lb)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club ŽRK Vardar
Number 77
Senior clubs
0000–2005
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007–2011
2011–2013
2013–		 ORK Beograd
ŽRK Radnički Belgrade
ŽRK Knjaz Miloš
RK Krim Ljubljana
Győri Audi ETO KC
ŽRK Vardar
National team
  Serbia 93 (464)[1]
Medal record
World Championship
2013 Serbia Team competition

Andrea Lekić (born 6 September 1987)[2] is a Serbian handballer who plays for ŽRK Vardar and also is a captain of the Serbian national team.

Andrea Lekic was born in Belgrade. She started playing Handball in the year 2000 in the younger categories of ORK Belgrade. She continued her career in Radnicki, Belgrade which is the most successful club in Serbia, and she spent two seasons there (2005-2007). She won her first championship title playing for Knjaz Milos from Arandjelovac in the 2006/2007 season. It was also the club’s first title ever. After one year in Arandjelovac, during the summer of 2007, she signed a contract with the two-time champion of Europe, Krim from Ljubljana.

During her four years in Slovenia, she acquired full affirmation and won four Doubles during her career with Krim. She signed a contract with Győr, Hungary 2011. as one of the most sought after players in the market. She missed the European championship title during her first season in a match against Buducnost from Podgorica, but she eventually reached her biggest success in her club career in May 2013, when she and her club defeated Larvik, Norway in the finals of the EHF Champions League. She also won two Doubles with Győr, Hungary.

In the summer of 2013. she decided for another professional challenge by signing a contract with Vardar, Macedonia, a club which presented a serious project of making a new sports brand for Macedonia. During the first few months, she lead the team that qualified in the first Final Four tournament of the Champions League in Budapest in their debutant season. Vardar finished third in the capital of Hungary, making that the biggest success in the history of the club. She prolonged her contract with the Macedonian champions until the summer of 2017.

She first played for the senior national team 2006 as one of the biggest potentials of Serbian handball. That same year, she played in the European championship in Sweden as well. She played for the national team in European championships in Macedonia, Denmark and Norway, as well as in Serbia in 2012 when Serbia placed 4th, which was the best result ever.

Her biggest success wearing the Serbia jersey was winning the silver medal on the World championship in Belgrade in December 2013. She has been the captain of the national team since 2011.

Andrea received the most significant individual accolade in the world of handball in 2013, when she was rewarded as the planet’s best handball player by the International Handball Federation [IHF World Player of the Year]. This wasn’t her first nomination, as she was nominated for that same accolade 2 years earlier, when she placed fourth.[3]

She is the main organizer of the “Andrea Lekic” handball academy for children, which debuted successfully in 2013, and she has serious expansion plans in the future.[4] She graduated at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management and received the title Bachelor of Economy, and she studies at the Faculty of Sports.

Achievements

Clubs

International

Awards and recognition


References

  1. ↑ "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). EHF. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Andrea Lekić Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Heidi Løke and Mikkel Hansen World Handball Players of the Year 2011". International Handball Federation. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Handball Academy Andrea Lekic". Lekic Academy. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Hypo strengthens with Korean". European Handball Federation. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "All Star Team announced". European Handball Federation. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2012.

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Awards
Preceded by
Brazil Alexandra do Nascimento		 IHF World Player of the Year
2013 		Succeeded by
Brazil Eduarda Amorim
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